National security and domestic policy-making: the similarities and the critical differences

Autor: Ronald J. Stupak, Thomas C Hone
Rok vydání: 1992
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Zdroj: International Journal of Public Administration. 15:1441-1447
ISSN: 1532-4265
0190-0692
DOI: 10.1080/01900699208524767
Popis: This analysis focuses on the discussion of whether (and how) national security and domestic policy-making processes are similar and/or different. Though many similarities are evident, it is the contention of this article that there are critical differences between national security and domestic policy-making that fundamentally affect the output from each of them. In addition, it is essential that public administrators develop a fuller understanding of national security policy-making processes since these processes do have theoretical, practical, and organizational impacts on institutional effectiveness, democratic processes, and governmental productivity. Let's remember that in the immediate post-Vietnam period many of us in the public management sectors--federal, state, and local-- dreamed of vast amounts of money being mainstreamed into the domestic coffers. Today that expectation is called the “peace dividend”. Little did we understand how much policy-making sophistication was embedded in the DOD. Ther...
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